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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
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Repentance is accepted remorse.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
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One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy.
One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance;
the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.